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Man helps tourist, discovers long-lost relative at Lugu Lake

A man in China named Chen Jie encountered a tourist at Lugu Lake and offered to take his photo. During their conversation, they discovered they shared the same ancestral hometown of Puyuan. Further discussion revealed that the tourist's father and Chen's grandfather were brothers who had lost contact after the tourist's father moved to Taiwan before 1949. AI

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Man helps tourist, discovers long-lost relative at Lugu Lake

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Alice Yan ·

    Chinese man helps tourist take photo only to discover stranger is long-lost relative

    When a man in China went travelling and helped a Taiwanese tourist take pictures, they chatted casually only to find out that the tourist was a long-lost relative of the man’s family. This incredible experience was shared on social media by the man, Chen Jie, who lives in Shangha…